Manali and its Sub-Region - Government of Himachal Pradesh

Strategies 193334) Museum for Himalayan Ethnography at the main city square and Museumof Himalayan Geology, History and Heritage across the new pedestrianlink on the Left bank (conceived as a twin destination with one ticket).5) Youth Center at the river edge.6) Heritage Interpretation Center at the Hidimba temple precinct..6 Develop and create a framework for the Scheduled Caste and ScheduledTribes groups and the under privileged through new house-hold industryand the tourism market..7 Incorporate specific functions targeting empowerment and skill upgradationof youth and women. New options for higher studies, technical orotherwise, career-based capacity building, vocational training, sports andgames etc., all this should be distributed around the town as necessarycounterpoint to tourism driven demands for this target group and for longterm asset building of the local population..8 Add new urban functions attracting diverse social and intellectual profilefrom the fraternity of academia, research, arts, science, civil society etc. soas to induce new directions of thought, engagement and involvement withthe town and its region beyond the existing singular spectrum of tourismrelated options that characterize this place. Provision for centers foradvanced research, technical and professional institutes, and conventionand seminar facilities apart from new housing stock would go a long way inharnessing appropriate talent, expertise and enterprise external to the cityand region to become new participants in the developmental paradigm ofthis area.